Since the passing of Billy Graham a plethora of voices has chimed in, each attempting to ascertain exactly what Graham’s death means in today’s world.
Graham’s daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship, and television’s Sid Roth are all saying that Graham’s death may create the “spark” for a national and perhaps an international revival.
Christianity could well use a revival in these days of worldwide apostasy and no one would discourage the move of God’s Spirit, but it is far more likely that the church may be concentrated rather than expanded in... (read more)

Planned Parenthood vs. Gun Violence – Hypocrisy Greater Than the World Itself
With the help of some simple math, statistics and basic honesty this article could write itself.
To clarify, guns are not the main topic here. To this writer it is not the second amendment, gun manufacturers or the NRA that is behind America’s rash of gun violence. It is a generation long plunge into Godlessness that robs people of hope, faith and morality. Add to that, the slaughter of innocent unborn babies to the tune of 60 million since 1973, these two are what make today’s nascent disrespect for life e... (read more)

When I lived in the Houston area about 20 years ago, one of my tennis partners was rather unique. Fred, an African-American gentleman, was a retired military officer and teacher. He was still relatively young, early 50s, and used to speak repeatedly about the need for diversity in all aspects of US life. His “contribution” was three booklets he wrote for inner-city middle schools, which were mainly about how-to-speak-white. He also admitted to me (with a wink) that he used his sales pitch to get dates with single female school administrators, which I observed first hand was a successful strate... (read more)

The 100% accuracy rate of Messianic prophecies (First coming of Christ) makes ignoring the premillennial prophecies (Second coming of Christ) the single greatest folly in the history of mankind. That would include the church or anyone who dismisses these warnings out of hand.
As to the question of which is worse; it is like finding that there is no exit door available when someone cries fire in a crowded room, or conversely, having someone pointing to a door that does not lead out of the burning building. It is a lose-lose situation.
There are three main reasons why some of today’s c... (read more)

The print, electronic, and social media are going saliva-bubbling crazy these days over frenzied reports of sexual harassment like it’s some kind of new fad or phenomenon. Why, it’s practically the thing to do!
Excuse me, but are any of us really shocked to learn about the Hollywood (wink, wink) casting couch, powerful politicians preying on fawning interns and followers; and full-of-themselves media personalities using their influence to get up-and-comers to go round-heels? I’m not suggesting their scumbag behavior is acceptable, but are any of us really surprised? I mean, REALLY???
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This is the tenth message in a series which began with an article entitled, “Prophecy 2008.” While many of the changes in our world have been negative such as the same sex marriage ruling of “Obergefell v. Hodges,” and the many destructive policies of the Obama administration, the rest of the world hasn’t done much better than America.
Europe is being subdued by the seventh century paganism of Islam, while her long and proud heritage is being cast into a waste heap of terror, oppression and fear.
The Middle East is a seething pot of hatred for Jews and the false narrative that Palest... (read more)

The idea that parents should have the right to remove their children from low-performing schools and enroll them in high-performing schools is the brainchild of Milton Friedman, a Nobel Laureate in economics. Friedman's idea is quite simple. If there was real competition for students by schools, quality would improve. It is this way in business. Why not in schools as well. The argument rests on two factors. 1) The definition of school performance and the measurement used to determine performance. 2) That competition is, indeed, a factor in school performance. On both these counts, the school c... (read more)

Standards in education create what Slavoj Žyžek calls an ironic distance. One can think of this as a law that is ignored by all including the enforcers of that law. Another way to think about the ironic distance is as a social policy that is accepted by all but denied in practice. The former evokes visions of highway speed limits that are routinely ignored by motorists and only sporadically enforced by the police. The latter brings to mind blatant racism in a nation that claims it has extraordinary civil rights laws on the books. Finally, one might think of ironic distance as the religious lea... (read more)

Having been to the moon once, we are now confident that the rest of the universe is only a quantum leap ahead – if there were any quantum leaps to be had.
But history has proven that men are traveling through the medium of time not the vast expanse of space – all men, throughout all time. It is an equation that a child can deduce. There is no argument.
Haphazardly and mostly blind, we hope to see a bright portent, a perfect sign, and a light to guide us to the endless tomorrows we all suspect that await us.
We know of the star that was given to point out where the Savior of mank... (read more)

So, here’s the deal: I was living in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) trying to work a deal with the younger Khashoggi brother, Amr, to sell an oil additive to (among others) ARAMCO, the KSA national oil company, and YUSEF BIN ACHMED KANOO, a giant ocean transport corporation. I admit that selling an oil product to the Arabs was akin to selling ice to eskimos. Then again, it was an adventure; and I’m always up for adventures. My well-appointed flat was located on the fifth floor of the Al Khozama Towers adjacent to the Al Khozama Hotel. I was the first occupant, and the suite was sp... (read more)

We live in a day when good sound reasoning has taken a permanent sabbatical to the land of PC fantasy. MSM, Democrats and liberals and well over half of academia’s darlings have chosen to abide where truth never darkens the door.
This condition is best illustrated by President Trump’s recent retweet of videos posted by a British nationalist who stands against the Islamisation of the United Kingdom, which clearly show Muslims in acts of serious violent crimes.
One video shows Muslims beating up a crippled Dutch boy who needed crutches to walk. Another video captures a Muslim smashing ... (read more)

I grew up in the Midwest during the end of what climatologists call the Little Ice Age; a short period of time when the Northern Hemisphere was supposedly much colder than normal. What I recall about winter, up through my undergraduate college days, are frequent cold snaps and snow falling shortly after Thanksgiving accompanied by a season-long hard freeze. We built snowmen, had snowball fights and sledded down a hill at the local cemetery for the entire month of December. Snow continued to fall throughout the month, and rivers, lakes, and ponds were solid enough to support ice skating—and/or ... (read more)

Many Americans especially Christians are now struggling to wrap their minds around the horrific slaughter of worshipers from the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
While it cannot bring back a single soul, nor will it alleviate all the suffering of the wounded, this writer, at last was able to see this as something more than just another act of terrorism with the help of two people I know.
Former military chaplain Dr. Gordon James Klingenschmitt who hosts a website and full scale ministry called “Pray in Jesus Name,” (PIJN) interviewed Matt Barber, former associate de... (read more)

HUNTERS – INSENSITIVE AND DEPRAVED Wild Frank - Witness to the Execution Remnants of a primitive past. Harsh words indeed, but a drop in the ocean to the sentiments of these perverse examples of man at his worst. There were days when hunting seemed to be the only means of survival but essentially man was driven by motives that in his earlier days of scavenging probably drew him to pine for fresh meat eventually. Like the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee, he could survive on a vegetarian diet. But primates are mainly vegetarian and Man should have followed had it not been for th... (read more)

You can’t have your cake and eat it too is an idiomatic proverb or figure of speech thought to have been used since the sixteenth century. It is the equivalent of saying, “you can’t have it both ways.”
Americans, it is said, are living in the most dumbed down generation in our history. College freshmen are reading at tenth grade high school level and knowledge of basic things like geography and history are an embarrassment to many from elementary to post grad school.
This may not be the time to expect that even common wisdom is enough for us to engage in to unravel the long list of d... (read more)

Things happens for a reason. Our whole lives are a series of connected events, one foreshadowing another. It is all one giant puzzle that brings together all the necessary elements that are needed for our soul’s evolution and growth. These are really all given in love, the one cohesive force that binds all of us together as one. The Christian religion has adopted many rituals and days of celebration from the ancient traditions of their own beliefs of how the Great Spirit works in our lives. Many “pagan” or Earth based practices were intentionally brought into the foundation of modern Chri... (read more)

Americans and most of the west are adrift in a turbulent sea of opinions and hyper-nonsense both culturally and politically. Progressivism has reached its zenith and has transmogrified into digression-ism, in a word it has become – pitiful.
Evolution has left behind the fact that the millions of remains of humans in transition have never been found and while intra species evolution or what the Bible calls, “after its kind” has been detected, inter species evolution is yet nowhere to be found. In a word the evolutionary model has become – ridiculous.
Hope of travel to the stars comes ... (read more)

You know, folks, we live in a time somewhat similar to Salem Witch Trial days. Then, if a lady’s behavior seemed to be a tad outside of mainstream; that is, a bit different from her peers, she was the subject of outlandish and cruel scrutiny. All it took to ruin (or take) her life was an accusation. Today all it takes to trash a man’s reputation, and perhaps brand him forever as a sex offender, is an allegation of impropriety. Whether or not the charge is true doesn’t seem to matter. We humans generally enjoy believing the worst; the old where-there’s-smoke-there’s-fire syndrome; that is, accu... (read more)

Americans have a generally weak understanding of sound Biblical theology. This is evidenced in our academic curriculum, movie and media depictions of God, the church and ministers, and in the common wisdom of the day.
We have many books and teachings on the difficult subject of why bad things happen to good people, but we also generally reject the idea that bad things will happen to bad people. We talk of karma like it was a simple equation without any connection to a sovereign God who watches over the earth and intervenes in a scheduled and specific way.
Atheists don’t believe God e... (read more)

Whether you want to know the state of affairs in another first-world country or want to gain information about a certain inter-state sports activity in your own country, nowadays accessing all kinds of information has become increasingly easier with the rise of social media and other web news portals. You can not only read the news online but there are forums where you can also share authentic news updates with others. There are plenty of blog sites and news portals where you can update some contents or upload a video about any kind of news in the world, including politics, business, technolog... (read more)

It is basic human nature to make simple things complicated because so-called big-brained intellectuals get paid a lot of money to offer convoluted, and often times conflicting, explanations for simple matters. We seem to like complications in order to deny and/or avoid the truth. Even though in a past life as a consultant I’ve taken part in this charade, I am a believer of Occam’s (or Ockham’s) Razor which states the simplest or most obvious explanation is the correct one. Here we go—
The theme of high school and college graduation snore-fest speeches, since before I was born, and probabl... (read more)

“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there...” (Mt 12: 43-45)
It is both a spiritual maxim that is as simple as its physical counterpart you must empty a glass of its contents before you can re-fill it with the desired fluid. A void is the groundwork for something altogether ne... (read more)

Years ago I met a man named Jamie who I was involved with for many years. He was trying to leave a spiritual group that he had been a part of for five years. Before I met him I had no interest in this group. I would be in the bookstore and touch a book written by their leader and my intuition would tell me no, not for me. I cared about this man so I wanted to go to the community and check it out. While we were there we watched a video of the leader giving a speech. As she spoke I felt a great energy and power coming off of the TV. This great charge of power was being emitted from the... (read more)

Billions of planets, infinite number of stars and solar systems and here we are all alone on Mother Earth.
The evidence of life else ware is abundant. Artists usually draw what they see and also use their imagination.
Cave dwellers have etched figures of space men, Rocket ships, and other forms of "alien" life. For example, there is a small sculpture of a being with a reptilian head and a human body nursing a baby.
The Great Spirits abundance is all around us. The myriad faces and forms of the human body are infinite.
The idea of space people has been shown to us on TV and ... (read more)

This year makes an even fifty years that I have been studying the subject of Biblical prophecy. I have watched as some of the best biblical expositors on this subject have arisen to help guide the believers and some of the worst as well.
It is with certainty I can say that most of the things in question here with the exception of the hype about September 23 and other astronomical occurrences are only what Jesus said they would be in Matthew’s gospel.
“All these are the beginning of sorrows.” (Mt 24: 8)
Disasters, famines, pestilence, earthquakes, wars and rumors of war are all p... (read more)